In a representation made before the governor just ahead of Gujarat assembly elections, the former Intelligence Bureau chief has sought action against "all officers who committed professional lapses due to incompetence or with ulterior motives, in the investigation of riot related cases, by violating streamlined procedure of supervision envisaged in Criminal Procedure Code, Gujarat Police Manual and other regulations".

Accusing many top bureaucrats of involvement in facilitating the communal violence in the Godhra carnage aftermath, Sreekumar wants that the governor should order to start close scrutiny of all judgments on riot related cases from the special courts to the apex court and take suitable departmental action on strictures and adverse observations by judiciary against them.

The former top cop has given a list of officials who allegedly failed to perform their duty during the tumultuous time.

He has stated that those officials that succeeded in maintaining law and order had acted according to the imperative efficacious strategy and SOP elaborated with sequential drills and exercises in the CrPC, Bombay Police Act as well as recommendations made by various judicial officers after conducting inquiry into the riots in the past.

Sreekumar further claimed, "Widespread mass violence against Muslims were noticed only in those areas where jurisdictional officers from police and executive magistracy had intentionally avoided adherence to SOP, and acted in tune with the alleged covert scheme of political leadership in the state government for achieving Hindu communal mobilization to get electoral dividents."

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